3K views · 180 reactions | Do you know what Siva Afi is?  Traditionally performed by young boys or men, the dance involves twirling a large knife with burning flames around their bodies to the beat of a wooden drum. The dance was designed to show strength through an exhilarating display of acrobatic tricks and fast-moving flames. #BeautifulSamoa #DiscoverBeautiful  - @meraz.potoi | Samoa Tourism | Facebook

Storytelling through Siva Samoa. Music and dance serve as repositories that preserve our history, cultural traditions and genealogy. These art forms bring our land and ocean to life. I continue to learn how Pacific cultural arts can serve as a portal into the past, to inform the present and help me to better navigate my future as a Pacific person. Cultural arts has always been centred in life. Dance is the most authentic physical and spiritual representation of how much our islands, people, land